Google Slams Apple Over iPhone Ad Ban

crimeandpunishment writes "This real-life clash of the titans could be much more interesting than the movie. Today Google fired the latest volley in its war of words with Apple over mobile advertising. In a blog posting, the head of Google's mobile ad service, Admob, had harsh words for Apple's new restrictions concerning the iPhone and iPad ... calling them a threat to competition. There's a lot of money at stake ... the US mobile ad market, which is about $600 million, is expected to more than double by 2013."

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Re:And thus there was Android

[Anonymous Coward]

is this the gameplan all along, and Android was a good pre-emptive strike?

or maybe Schmidt just stole Apple's ideas while sitting on the board

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Google Admits Android Market is an Epic Failure

[macs4all]

By getting all hot under their e-collars about this ad-ban thing on iOS4 devices, Google management has made a tacit admission that they don't expect the Android market to make a significant dent in the iOS-device marketshare.

Think about it: If Google actually had faith in its own platform, they'd simply shrug off the ban.

Yep, Google, you just showed your hand... Very bad strategy on their part, methinks.

Re:WebKit is based of of the KHTML

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh well, if Apple's Corporate description says something, it must be true. Hey, do you want another glass of kool aid, or are you full? I think you'll find if you look at the underlying codebase that the lion's share of development was still done as KHTML, Apple have polished and extended that and they're doing a great job which is to the benefit of the entire web, but don't diminish the original author's excellent work in your zealous need to attribute all the great works of the world to your chosen one.

Re:Cry me a river

[NatasRevol]

You missed mTor's point.

It's not that you get an ad from someone else - Google allows that.
It's that you can't get an ad from a different ad platform on a Google page - Google doesn't allow that because it's competition. But they want Apple to allow it, which they actually do, but just don't provide ALL the metrics if you're a competitor. Which is hypocrisy and whining. And Apple is actually more open on advertising that Google is. Which is just hysterical.